Improvement in clod-crushers



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PATENT QFFIGE.

DANIEL B. B ARNET, OF SALEM, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN cLoo-cRusHERs.

Specification forming part of letters Patent No. 158,233, dated December29, 1874; application filcd July 11, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL B. BARNET, ofSalem, in the county of Washington and State of Indiana, have invented anew and valuable Improvement in Harrow andGlod-Orushers; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of-a plan view of my barrowand clod crushers. Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional detail views of the same.I

This invention has relation to combined harrows and crushers; and thenature of the invention consists in the novel construction andarrangement of several cylindrical clodcrushers, preceded by acylindrical cutterbearing crusher, having in front another cylindricalcutter, all being linked together and to each other, whereby clods aresubjected to a leveling action before beingrsubjected to the cutters,and a most thorough disintegration and breaking up of the soil isproduced, and the crushers are permitted to adapt themselves to theinequalities of the soil, as will be hereinafter more fully explained. V

In the annexed drawings, A designates the front cylindrical crusher ofmy improved implement, and B the cutter, bearing cylindricalcrusher,immediatelyfollowingit andconnected with it and a number ofsimilarly-shaped following crnshers, G, by means of a link, 1, andsuitable hasps driven into each of the said crushers. D represents theteeth or cutters of myimproved harrow, consisting ofa flat blade, havinga straight back and a curved cuttingedge, (Z, and a rectangular shank,d, which is received into a suitable mortise in the crusher B, and maybe secured thereto by means of a suitable tap-nut. E represents a chainattached by both ends to the crusher A, to which the motive power isapplied.

When my improved implement is actuated the front crusher is firstbrought in contact been used for harrowingand mellowing soil by othersthan myself; hence I make no broad v claim to such invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The cylindrical pulverizing crushers A O G O, cylindrical crusher B,having cutting-blades D, and draftchains l I, combined as and for thepurpose described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two Witnesses.

DANIEL B. BARNET. Witnesses:

JASPER N. RODMAN, WILLIAM F. MUNAN.

